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  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 2 h 3 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 2 h 3 m

Summary Taeko and her husband Jiro are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy’s long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with her pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping Park, who is deaf and currently homeless.

Directed By: Kôji Fukada

Written By: Akiko Yano, Kôji Fukada

  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 2 h 3 m
  • 2023
  • Oscilloscope
  • 2 h 3 m

Love Life

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Summary Taeko and her husband Jiro are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy’s long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with her pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping Park, who is deaf and currently homeless.

Directed By: Kôji Fukada

Written By: Akiko Yano, Kôji Fukada

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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88
Aug 11, 2023
While there can be an artificiality to monologues, the raw and complex contradictions each character contends with are rooted in emotions that never once ring false, and the actors bring an authenticity that transcends treacle.
By Marya E. Gates FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 15, 2023
A gentle, complex film that will pay rewatching.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 9, 2022
Isolation, emotional distance and (mis)communication are all on display in Love Life, though these subjects are approached with a disorienting but welcome lightness, underlining the absurdity of family life.
By Lovia Gyarkye FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 28, 2023
Grief is universal, and yet no two stories about it are alike, a distinction that keeps Koji Fukada’s tender drama “Love Life” unpredictable as it mixes the mundane with the inexplicable, and empathy with alienation, to nuanced, if never fully stirring effect.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
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Sep 9, 2022
Koji Fukada’s Love Life unabashedly embraces melodramatic contrivance in its examination of modern middle-class love tested as much by social prejudices as by personal demons; it just does so with such pallid, polite reserve that its sentimentality never becomes transcendently moving.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 14, 2023
It’s more a grief triangle than a love triangle, and a late revelation alters its symmetry, erasing hard-won sympathy for one character.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 9, 2022
A busy web of interpersonal dynamics, Love Life often feels more concerned about its characters’ storylines and the way they all fit into each other than about what the audience might be getting out of watching it all play out.
By Elena Lazic FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Art House Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Chipangu, Comme des Cinémas, Institut Français, Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Love Life Production Committee, MK2 Films, Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Nagoya TV), Stardust Pictures (SDP)
Release Date Aug 11, 2023
Duration 2 h 3 m
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Website https://www.bfi.org.uk/bfi-film-releases/love-life
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tromsø International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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